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how people of all levels of education and eloquence use words as instruments of power... What makes this play resonate is less its Big Theme — beauty (or lack thereof) and its discontents — than how that theme illuminates the insecurities of people who don't feel they have much to offer the world...
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is in part about learning to listen. If it stumbles in illustrating this lesson, it also opens its author's ears to a new, richly human music."
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